Alibaba launched a new artificial intelligence model that the company says can understand images and hold more complex conversations than the company’s previous products, as the global race for technology leadership heats. The Chinese tech giant said its two new models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, are open source, meaning researchers, researchers and companies around the world…
Threads, a Meta Twitter clone that launched last month and quickly climbed the app charts, is going viral and giving users access to their computers. Threads.net is not yet available to everyone and may still only show a link to download the mobile app. A Meta spokesperson said, “The Company will release the online version…
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, catalogs the fates of the Soviet Union’s first 11 space missions before the spacecraft successfully landed on the moon as stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed and crashed. Even today—there have been nine moon landings since 2013—achievements are mixed. It just…
Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, can no longer block comments from unwanted followers, removing what was a key security feature, X owner Elon Musk said in a post recently. “Blocking is only available for direct messages. We plan to remove blocking as a feature other than DMs,” Musk wrote. Musk responded to a…
